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Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus.
(www.pravda.com.ua)
Weird timing
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
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Yes, especially in light of the Linux thing this morning
I'm OOTL. What Linux thing are you talking about?
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Hacker sanctions are finally real.
Oh nyoo, they'll have to use the open source ones!!
Haven't the common folk been through enough?
/s
(And the open sauce nVidia drivers got actually completely viable, great effort & results)
They could still just download the official drivers straight from the NVIDIA website with a VPN. Or from a mirror without one.
Did NVIDIA stop selling videocards in Russia? The article doesn't mention it.
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This has no sense
They will just come up with a new Runix OS with Ruvidia drivers. It might be like the time the Germans invented modern rocketry, the pulse engine and the turbine engine.
It's relatively bad news maybe. Same in China.
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